1. Monitoring Smart Specialisation Strategies
Carlo Gianelle
Barcelona, 4 May 2017

2. Talking about monitoring
Why monitoring?
Monitoring as a management tool
The logic of intervention
Basic elements: results & outputs
The role of priorities
Integration with the strategy
Differences between S3 and OP
Participatory monitoring
The role of stakeholders
Data sources
The choice of indicators & target values
…back to the starting point: what shall we
do with all this info?
…last
time
Implementing Smart Specialisation
Strategies: A Handbook
Today

3. Why a monitoring system?
Internal functions
Inform on the development of the transformation processes set in motion by our policy actions
Allow quick responses to a changing environment
External functions
Support participation of stakeholders
(continuous EDP)
Communicate with the interested
parties and the citizens at large
Promote trust
Learning
and
(re)acting
Purposes of monitoring
Transparency and responsibility
Trust and commitment

4. Only partial control of the intervention logic
Strategic
Objectives
Specific
Objectives x
Priorities
Policy Actions
MEANS
ENDS

5. Only partial control of the intervention logic
DESIRED x
Strategic
Objectives
Specific
Objectives x
Priorities
Policy Actions
DESIRED
FINANCIAL RESOURCES
MEANS
ENDS
Advocacy function:
Build a prototype monitoring to gather consensus on the rationale and the need for a strategy!
Use the prototype as an asset to negotiate with upper hierarchies in the administration for more autonomy

6. OP & RIS3 Monitoring “Results” and “result indicators” in RIS3 ≠ OP!
 From a logical point of view, the RIS3 indicators are result indicators, but they can and should be different from the ones defined for the OP
RIS3-result indicators should be priority-specific:
 Brake-down OP indicators by priorities
 Define completely new indicators for the strategy OP
OP-RI1
OP-RI2
OP-RI3
RIS3

7. Thank you! @S3Platform http://s3platform.jrc.ec.europa.eu 7